How to Update Galaxy S GTI9000 with Stable Jellybean 4.1.1 Firmware

If you are having the Samsung Galaxy S GT I9000 smartphone and are wondering on why in the race of Android, not many of the users are bothering about the jellybean 4.1 update for the SGS then you got to think a bit on this thought as developers are working hard to come up with the stable Jellybean ports for SGS and on the similar lines we will be checking out on how you can easily install this all new Jellybean 4.1.1 port which resembles more of a Galaxy Nexus port and is the stable update. Please note that this is not an Official firmware update released by Samsung Electronics and unfortunately there won’t be any official Jellybean update for I9000 device.

Disclaimer: We should not be held responsible or liable for any damage happened to your device due to not following the instructions. It is very unlikely that there will be any damage to your device if you follow all the instructions.

In the due course of this article we will be checking out on what are the change logs of this firmware along with the detailed pre requisites and a simple guide which will assist you to apply this firmware in your device.

With the help of below mentioned steps, you will have to back up all the user level data present in your phone. Don’t make use of the KIES PC Suite for backing up the data as sometimes you may face issues with the tool. Manual backup is the safe backup, once you back up the data, move the target files to your computer.

Antivirus tools may interrupt the process of firmware update process iny uor phone, so its better to disable / uninstall the same. From the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”, you will have to enable the USB Debugging Mode. Also, ensure that you have a minimum of 40% battery charge left so as to make sure that the device doesn’t get turned off in the middle of rooting process.

So assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now head over to the next step where we have summed up a detailed guide on how to apply this firmware update.

Procedure to update Galaxy S GT I9000 with Jellybean 4.1.1 Firmware:

First up check on whether your device is rooted or not. To check, download “Root Checker” app from the PLAY Store and check on whether the device is rooted or not. Please note that just in case if you haven’t updated rooted your device then with the help of below links you can easily update and root the device.

Now, assuming that you have rooted your phone successfully, you can now head over to downloading the Jellybean 4.1.1 Package and Google Apps Package from here to your computer. Once you have downloaded, connect your device to the computer with the help of USB cable and place these two zip files in your computer. Once placed, disconnect the Galaxy S smartphone and turn Off the device so that it can be entered in the recovery mode.

Samsung Galaxy S can be entered in the recovery mode by pressing the Volume Up Key, Center button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button. If the device boots up in the normal mode, then try again the above process to get your Galaxy S I9000 in recovery mode. Please note that if you apply on any other Galaxy S variant then there is a possibility that you might just brick the device.

In recovery mode, select Wipe data/factory reset and also you need to select Wipe Cache partition and then reboot your device by selecting reboot system now with the help of Volume rocker keys so that all the cache data will be wiped Off completely.

Select “install zip from sd card” > “choose zip from sd card” and then choose the Jellybean 4.1.1 firmware package and then the Google Apps Package to select “Yes” with the help of Volume rocker keys and Menu button. Once the file is selected, it will take around 5 – 7 minutes for applying the same. Once the update is applied, select “go back” and then “reboot system now”.

Note: If the device gets into the boot loop sequence or say gets stuck in the welcome screen, just re insert the battery and re follow the above instructions so as to again follow the above mentioned instructions.

Do share with us in the comments section so that just in case if you face any issues faced in the process of applying this update as we will try our level best to sort out the same. Congratulations, you have now successfully updated your Galaxy S GT I9000 with the latest Jellybean 4.1.1 firmware version.

When I try to shoot a video using the stock camera, the app closes giving an error: “Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped”. However the strange thing is that Video with front camera works fine. Please help. I tried the same thing with Camera Zoom FX App and I get the same error message, but only with the Rear Camera.

I found the answer to my question myself. I had enabled Bigmem in Semaphore and that was causing this problem. BY disabling it, the rear camera is working fine.

Bigmem

When the kernel boots, it reserves some RAM to be used by some drivers (video, capture, JPG) for DMA (Direct Memory Access). In Linux kernel this reservation have to be done only during boot. It was found that using less reserved memory for video capture, the kernel can operate normally without issue with the only regretion that 720p video recording is not possible. Enabling this option will leave ~13MB more available RAM.

This software is great. update is working with no glitches,however a lot of apps don’t work and cannot download apps it says “your device is not compatible with this version” some help with this would be great.Thanks

When my phone started up after installing this it gave me some message like “Semaphone super user is requesting access blah blah blah”. THere was a countdown of 10 seconds and it reached 0 and the message disappeared before I had decided what to do. I didn’t click anything. Is this OK?

Kindly help me.
Anytime I try to download the files, the link opens at hot files and I am told the files are no longer there.
But i really need to update my Galaxy S from the XWJW1 to help correct someproblems I am having.
Please any solutions?

i installed this rom and its perfectly running smoothly on my sgs.. it’s so fast, all apps are running fine like camera and everything, the animation is the best, and also my ram becomes 420mb.. yah!!!! unbelievable but it just happened.. however, i’m just wondering why YOUTUBE, VIBER, SUPERSU isn’t compatible with this rom. it say’s ” YOUR DEVICE IS NOT COMPATIBLE ON THIS VERSION !!!!! ” is there anything that we can do about this? we all need those app right? so pls, do something.. thanks alot and more power!!!

I have installed the “Stable Jellybean” using your instructions – 3 weeks ago.

So far no major problems detected – except that now when I connect the phone to a USB port to transfer photos to the computer, the phone is not detected by the computer as mass storage. I need this urgently so please advice how to achieve this.
I read the next article to install the “Most Stable Jellybean” but I cannot transfer via USB. Yuor urgent help will be greatly appreciated…..

Have been using it over a week now. Overall its a pretty good firmware with two major problems.
1. My phone network keeps disappearing.
2. Many of the applications from Play store not supported probably due to dpi settings.

Hello…installed today and so far everything is fine…going to check de batery consum and network test…installed the release 12.1 avaiable on the goo.im…great work and carry on droid geek´s 🙂 case i´m 1 to…thanks for the good work

Hi Pradeep,
I have installed the [JRO03L]_OFICIAL_ANDROID_4.1.1_B9r_(DATADATA)_WIPE_ALL.zip according to the instructions in the i9000 update to 4.1.1 article. Having read through the comments, I have not come across any problems mentioned (loss of IMEI#; no front camera etc). However, I have noticed that if I factory-reset to remove all my personal details before I return the phone; when it is rebooted, it gets stuck at the ‘X’ of the welcome screen. I then have to remove the battery and reload the ROM. Since I am loading this O/S for a friend who will not have the expertise toreload the ROM, is there a workround to stop it getting stuck in the loop?
Thanks.

Hi Pradeep, I am currently on 2.3.4 with XXJVR. I follow your blog quite a lot and every time I want to upgrade the firmware, I get confused with so many options. Could you please suggest me a stable and fully working version that I should go for? (2.3.6, 4.0, 4.1.1?)

finally managed to install the rc10 and now the phone has network. world perfectly.
Just need help with 2 issues. can’t install Facebook and waze as market gives error message application not compatible with this device. is there any solution to this?

I installed this ROM to my Galaxy s device and it is working fine now. But when I connect my device to PC, my external SD card is not detecting. Only my phone internal memory is get detected. What should I do for this? Is this a bug or what?

Hi in deep problem need urgent help.. I updated the DataData file as mentioned here but didnt like the interface so tried to install the RC10 which is the semaphore kernel update in this process phone got bricked. So i reinstalled gingerbread ddjv9 then value pack and then rooted value pack. TIll this the phone was getting network. Post that if i update ICS or Jelly bean RC10 or Jelly bean DataData file the phone doesnt get any network can anyone please help

The best that ive tried. fast and very smooth. This is the only rom that have network coverage here in the Philippines. I tried cm10 and remics they are all very good roms but no sim card detected or could be no network coverage.
im at RC10 will update to RC11 later. Thanks ! 😀

Hi Neela,
Many Many Thanks….My SGS GTI9000 is stable with 4.1.1
No issues at all….all apps,wifi,camera back/front working fine…
Battery life is good…..My phone is faster now then 2.3.6
But Just need to know how can I take screen capture now?
Redards
Deb

which functions will not work after update from 2.3.3 to 4.1.1????? and my mobile has baseband DDJV6 and kernel is DDJV9 then how to update to 4.1.1???
also if process will stuck at middle then how to restore ??

Hi Neal!
Thanks for the gr8 update. Everything works fine but I my wifi doesn’t get turn on. When from the wifi settings I turn it on it keep on saying wifi turning on but nothin happens but my data network(3g) works fine.

How do i down grade back to gingerbread XWJW6 2.3.6?
I’m having issues with the camera and apollo music player. The camera force closes on me most of the time & it lacks features.. Apollo just doesn’t work at all. I prefer gingerbread but i don’t know to get it back. when i try down grading it myself i keep getting stuck at system recovery 3e. please help!
But Neela you are doing a great job keep it up!

Hi Neal, good job as usual, keep it up. However after installing the Jellybean the phone cannot connect to internet through my mobile network and it seems this jellybean only connects via WIFI by default. I have manually configured my APN but when I try to connect to Play store or internet browser it seems to only ask fconnrct by WIFI and I am not prescribed to any

Hi Neal,
I want to know is there any solution to back up downloaded games as I have this problem every time I update my phone. I follow all the instructions to backup, but never came across a backup for downloaded games. Can you please help as this is a major problem to download these games again and start playing all over again.

hi pradeep. i tried updating my firmware and followed your instructions, now when i was installing the [JRO03L]_OFICIAL_ANDROID_4.1.1_RC10.zip file using the recovery mode, i got stuck in an android logo screen with power by semaphore message. can you help me? thanks

I have updated jelly bean to Galaxy S everything updated but after rebooting the system before opening home screen it is asking type password to decrypt storage but I have not given any password to for the phone or sd card so my phone cant be used further so help me out with this. Thank u

Somehow whatever ROM I’ve tried with JB invalidates my IMEI no. and i cannot search for any network, much less connect to it.
However, whn i flash back to GB or ICS the IMEI no. is restored. Can anyone help diagnose the cause pls? Thanks 🙂

I’ve tried tht … still no difference..
Another issue i’ve faced is…whn custom ROMs are flashed – my phone keeps keeps typing / opening apps etc by itself…like something from within is touching it. After flashing back to Touchwiz this doesnt occur… so i was wondering if the prob is only wit my phone and if there is a solution to this. Again here ive reapplied the rom by wiping data & cache…
Thanks!

I’ve tried tht … still no difference.. whn i switch the phone on it still says ‘invalid imei do u want to cont.’ :S
Another issue i’ve faced is…whn custom ROMs are flashed – my phone keeps keeps typing / opening apps etc by itself…like something from within is touching it. After flashing back to Touchwiz this doesnt occur… so i was wondering if the prob is only wit my phone and if there is a solution to this. Again here ive reapplied the rom by wiping data & cache…
Thanks!